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AWS Server Migration Service [EOL] vs Densify comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

AWS Server Migration Servic...
Average Rating
9.2
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Densify
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Migration (13th), Cloud Management (39th), Virtualization Management Tools (12th), Cloud Analytics (7th), Cloud Cost Management (25th)
 

Featured Reviews

AD
Senior Web Developer at freelancer
A cloud solution for operating and managing the AWS Server, EC2, and S3 bucket
Some of the functionalities are increasing day by day. Some points are yet to be explored according to the requirements. While working with others, I will get some insights and create more challenges to improve. It will be helpful for me to enhance my skills in the AWS server mode because different challenges make a person perfect. AWS is a very good server with flexibility and 99% uptime. Most applications and e-commerce are also using AWS servers. We always advise using the AWS server because it is a very good server with 99% uptime. We can start with the initial level at the initial price. We can upgrade the AWS server. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
Amit Kantia - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure capacity & demand manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Its most valuable feature is the ability to capture attributes in the console, but it is not a stable solution
I recommend others to use Densify. They can not only use it for reporting but for automation as well. They can implement the policies on the console easily during the build-out procedure. Stability is the primary concern to us as it is causing lots of problems. We can only make significant decisions if Densify allows us, and it takes lots of time. Thus, I rate the tool as a six out of ten.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The tool is automatic and makes migration easy."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The solution's setup phase was straightforward."
"Mature, resilient, and seamless database and server migration solution that's stable and scalable."
"The tool will come back and tell us that we can operate with 1,000 minutes as an example, save 90% on the contractual rate and not run into any issues."
"The Densify Control Console, and Environment Status."
"The ability to increase server density inside of my environment, which has helped me drive reduction in costs."
"One would be the automatic rebalancing of the environment. That was one feature which helped. With that, we could improve our efficiency of our VMware infrastructure."
"I would say that the initial thing is that it provides us with a technological basis to expand capacity management beyond Excel."
"The Control Console provides a very easy to read dashboard of "too little/just right/too much" resources both for current data and on a historical or predictive basis."
"Densify's ability to aggregate multiple on-premise vCenters and multiple cloud accounts, gives it a level of visibility not found in many places."
"The Control Console is an incredible way to give a quick view of current capacity utilization allowing technical people to drill down quickly and allowing business/management people to get a quick overview of the environment."
 

Cons

"There is no monitoring support available in the solution."
"The documentation and videos could be improved, especially in the area of migration. Live videos would be helpful. There are very limited videos available."
"The database schema conversion could be made more seamless for this solution. Widening the scope of features for database migration will also help."
"The product's cloud security could be improved. It also needs to improve its stability."
"Normalization of CPU utilization is required. At present, the data is available based on entitlement level."
"Initially we talked about some custom reporting, wherein our customer expected certain reports on a few areas, like how the storage is allocated, how the network performance is doing, and how the network utilization is happening for a virtual machine."
"A closer integration to the service management processes."
"Unfortunately the tools and mechanisms which really came to maturity in the cloud, and were not mainstream on-premise, are still not implemented."
"The solution's stability is the primary concern for me."
"It seems that the mechanism for integration is, it goes so far but I think there could be some standard integration to normal remedy service now etc. I think that should be out of the box."
"In terms of integration, the tool has great data. However, it's not always meaningful because the true business attributes of how most Fortune 500 companies operate are not maintaining in one tool, they're in a school of many tools."
"Some parts of the interface are rather complex and require a bit of time to navigate, but this has never stopped us as a Densify advisor is readily available to help with our "how to" queries."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is no need to pay for any licensing since it is an open-source tool."
"Setup cost is negligible, as it scales fairly well."
"There was some sticker shock, as this is not just another software product to spit out graphs."
"Densify has licensing setup so you can collect data without licensing. It gives you the ability to collect on everything, then choose later what you would like to license."
"Cost is always involved, but then I feel that this solution is better than other products that we have."
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Top Industries

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Retailer
14%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Computer Software Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
 

Company Size

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Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise9
 

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